CVE-2025-3876

HIGH

SMS Alert Order Notifications < 3.8.1 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Insufficient OTP Validation

Title source: llm

Description

The SMS Alert Order Notifications – WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to insufficient user OTP validation in the handleWpLoginCreateUserAction() function in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to impersonate any account by supplying its username or email and elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L145

Product

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sms-alert/tags/3.8.0/handler/forms/class-wplogin.php#L447

Patch

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3290478/

Release Notes

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sms-alert/#developers

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1cf65f79-d386-4dd4-a360-b2f764dfaf19?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 29.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-862

Status published

Products (2)

cozyvision/sms_alert_order_notifications < 3.8.2

cozyvision1/SMS Alert – SMS & OTP for WooCommerce, Order Notifications & Abandoned Cart Recovery < 3.8.1

Published May 10, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026